Maharashtra: Senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Chhagan Bhujbal has said that he will be inducted into the Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis-led cabinet in Maharashtra on 20 May, Tuesday. This will mark Bhujbal’s return to ministerial office after a long gap. “I have been informed that I will be inducted into the state cabinet. Oath…
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Member of Parliament (MP), Sanjay Singh, targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Rajya Sabha on Friday, blaming the saffron party for what he called a 94 per cent rise in cases of communal violence across the country since 2019. Singh said the spurt in the communal incidents was due to…
Maharashtra Budget 2025: Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Ajit Pawar will present the state Budget for 2025-26 in the assembly today, March 10, 2025. This will be the first budget of the newly-formed Mahayuti government. This will also be Pawar’s 11th Budget as Finance Minister of Maharashtra. In last year’s pre-election budget, the Mahayuti…
The Maharashtra government has established a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate an alleged conspiracy by the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) regime to file false criminal cases against prominent leaders Devendra Fadnavis and Eknath Shinde. The SIT will be led by Satyanarayan Chaudhary, Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) for Mumbai, as outlined…
The government of Maharashtra is gearing up to host the biggest AI event in Asia, Mumbai Tech Week (MTW) 2025, in partnership with the Tech Entrepreneurs Association of Mumbai (TEAM). Scheduled from 24 February to 1 March 2025, the event aims to strengthen Mumbai’s position as a growing hub for artificial intelligence (AI) and technological…
Activist Manoj Jarange is currently in the throes of an indefinite hunger strike, which has now entered its fifth day, as he advocates for the inclusion of the Maratha community under the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category. Launched on January 25, 2025, this marks Jarange’s seventh such protest in just over a year. According to…
Rumours are doing the rounds that Assembly elections in Maharashtra may not be announced until the state government – led by Mahyuti – releases all four instalments of the Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana. If this happens, the elections to the 288 seats in Maharashtra Assembly could take place in December, as the fourth instalment…
Senior politician Uddhav Thackeray sparked outrage on Saturday after accusing the BJP of indulging in ‘power jihad’. He also accused the Eknath Shinde-led ruling dispensation of bribing voters through revdis or freebies. The remarks prompted a sharp rebuttal from the BJP with politicians claiming that the former Maharashtra Chief Minister had “lost his mental balance”….
